Search for source of deadly disease often leads to deer farms

10:58 AM,
Mar. 31, 2014

Ivan Hochstetler encourages three fawns to proceed through the opening of the Deerhandler that is used for administering medications, vaccinations, or other type of handling that is required or needed. Hochstetler said he and his sons were able to vaccinate approximately 40 head of deer in less than two hours using this equipment.

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Ryan Sabalow
The Indianapolis Star

In April 2012, a tree fell on a fence in Southern Indiana and 20 white-tailed deer bounded through the gap, their tails raised like stark white flags.

One of the deer in the pen had been shipped from a Pennsylvania herd where two deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease, a neurological disorder that's always fatal to deer and elk and has been found in 22 states - but never in Indiana.